Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I love nursing! Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! The post Big Mike Reminded Me Why I Love Nursing appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. He had accomplished something my parents never did. Mike has stayed sober for over nine years now and sponsors others.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! Don’t say it’s a dementia unit or ward. Call it a new world. If you change the way you think instead of trying to change the way they think, your world will open up and the sun will shine in.

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LPN Nurse Stories 98

Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! Listen to them, be attentive, and be available. Editor’s note: Learn how the new 988 crisis hotline can help callers in crisis reach trained counselors when they need someone to listen.

Mental Health 98

Mental Health Nurse Stories Business 98

Nurse.com

JANUARY 23, 2023

“I had known I wanted to be a nurse since I was a child. I used to wrap my stuffed animals, friends, and family in bandages and always tried to help others,” said Melanie Anon, RN, in her Nurse.com Nurse Stories blog. Some nurses completely change career direction after witnessing a nurse in action.

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Nursing Burnout Nurse Stories APRN Business 105

Nurse.com

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve had an amazing career and have shared my story with my patients to give them hope that they too can get through whatever they’re going through. I’ve always said God wanted me to be a nurse, so he kept me around. Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today!

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LPN Nurse Stories 59

Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She taught this new nurse that a patient is more than a name on a chart, and everyone needs a little TLC at the most vulnerable times in their lives. Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! I was happy that I could be a part of Mary’s life.

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Long Term Care Nurse Stories 52

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But I think the common denominator that rings true is this: Being a nurse is more than just a degree. Would you like to share your nurse story with your colleagues? The post How I Went From Being a NICU Mom to a NICU Nurse appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. More than a career. We’d loved to read it!

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Nurse Stories 99

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! Building our skills helps us along the way. I also teach my students that trusting our mentors, understanding empathy, and being open to new possibilities give us a better chance at success.

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Psychiatry Nurse Stories Mental Health Nursing Administration 65

The Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Nurse Holly is educating herself and her students as she grows her display featuring Black healthcare leaders during Black History Month. She shares her story of how the project has expanded in this edition of “School Nursing Stories from the Field.”

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Nurse Stories Best Practices Leadership Education 86

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Now I pray for more nurses because we need those who want more than a job — they want a career that’s also a way of life. Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! But I witnessed the most beautiful waves of humanity along the way. I am a success.

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Military Long Term Care Nurse Stories Business 80

Nurse.com

JULY 25, 2023

so why go to nursing school? Because becoming a nurse was like completing the circle and giving back to the nurses who took care of me. Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! I loved engineering, designing circuits, troubleshooting, etc., Thanks, Ed, for helping me get there.

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Nurse Stories Retirement Education 52

The Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

More wonderful stories from the field are filling my mailbox! Remember if you want to share your school nursing story, please email me at relentlessschoolnurse@gmail.com. I have a new one to share, this one is from Wendy Lamparelli, the lead nurse in her New Jersey school district.

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Nursing Certifications Nurse Stories Education 106

Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

Nursing may not be glamorous, but I love it. I hope my story encourages others to never give up. Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! The post Realizing a Dream: How I Earned My Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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LPN Long Term Care Nurse Stories Retirement 52

Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Share your nurse story with us! The post From Horses to Humans: My Unconventional Path to Nursing appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 2, 2022

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story. Through the smallest of actions, Nurses provide vital care and kindness. All of us will experience illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend on the support and dignity that Nurses offer us; yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung.

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Self-Care Nurse Stories 80

Nurse Deck

MAY 4, 2023

Over the years and even until the present, nurses have worked long hours to administer, assess, and monitor patient treatment. The celebration of Nurses Month is a nice way to highlight inspirational nurse stories. Truth be told, nurses are humans, too.

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Telemedicine Nurse Practitioner Nurse Stories Communication 52

The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I was in several meetings discussing health policy and, I kept thinking to myself “where is the voice of nursing? where are the rural and remote nursing stories here”. What inspired you to start your podcast?

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Leadership Nurse Stories Professional Development Business 52

Nurse.com

JANUARY 24, 2023

No matter what lies ahead, I’m ready to face it and add another chapter to my nursing journey. Editor’s note: Soon after submitting her nurse story, Cohen faced another facility closure. Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today!

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Nurse Stories 69

Amercan Journal of Nursing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Image Brent Keane/via Pexels I have often heard health care professionals in various environments say, “If you’re nice to the nurses and doctors who take care of you, you’ll get better care.” As a bedside nurse myself, I understand the sentiment.

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Self-Care Bedside nursing Business Patient Advocacy 95

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Continue on working on highlighting a nurse, and start getting nursing stories from nurses to promote nursing and membership. Need to have a meeting and vote on Bylaws once I get them back fro the KSNA Bylaws committee. Working with the MSD in getting emails updated.

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Continuing Education APRN Promotion Education 52

Nurse.com

AUGUST 24, 2023

Share your nurse story with your colleagues. Submit your story today! I believe an advanced degree will lead to my desired leadership role and that my education will set me apart. My aim in life is to never let my circumstances determine my destiny.

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Preceptors Long Term Care Nurse Stories Travel Nursing 92

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For almost 24 years, The DAISY Foundation has made bestowing nurses who demonstrate extraordinary skill and compassion with meaningful recognition and appreciation its goal. The majority of DAISY Award nominations, which describe the difference nurses make every day, are written by patients and their family members.

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Professional Development Self-Care Leadership Patient Advocacy 99

Nurse.com

AUGUST 17, 2023

When nurses help nurses by creating special programs, it’s a personal mission to make work life better for all of their colleagues. Let’s take a look at some programs that are succeeding in this endeavor.

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Chief Nursing Officer Self-Care Patient Experience Nurse Manager 96

The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Swab | Georgie Carroll Comedian and Nurse Georgie Carroll digs around infectious nurses folds to see what they are packing, hopefully it’s viral. Liking this list of Australian Nursing Podcasts?

Nurse Stories 98

Nurse Stories Self-Care Emergency Care Education 98

The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Swab | Georgie Carroll Comedian and Nurse Georgie Carroll digs around infectious nurses folds to see what they are packing, hopefully it’s viral. Liking this list of Australian Nursing Podcasts?

Nurse Stories 98

Nurse Stories Self-Care Emergency Care Education 98

Amercan Journal of Nursing

JULY 13, 2023

Photo by Artem Kovalev on Unsplash Two-and-a-half years ago, I experienced severe burnout in my role as a night shift charge nurse in a cardiovascular ICU. This blog post shares my personal story, highlighting the common ingredients of burnout and the challenges I faced.

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Self-Care Leadership Communication Nurse Educator 85

IntelyCare

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Grace Mwenya is a registered nurse (RN) who immigrated to the United States from Zambia 30 years ago. Nursing enabled Grace to create a life for her family in the U.S. while at the same time giving her extra money to send back home.

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Licensing Education Nurse Stories 98

Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Every Saturday, my husband John would prepare for his golf outing. The house filled up with his happy hums as he gathered his clubs and shoes. At the same time, I would be working on project papers and packing them in my briefcase for school. This was our Saturday routine for the past 10 years. But one Saturday was different. Insook Kim, RN.

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Nurse Stories 111

Amercan Journal of Nursing

MAY 1, 2023

Nurses Week is scheduled to correspond with the birth of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). We do this to honor her work in professionalizing and modernizing nursing. USS Red Rover hospital ship. National Library of Medicine. Her contribution to our profession is considerable, and it is right that we pay respect to her.

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Military Education Nurse Stories 83

Amercan Journal of Nursing

MARCH 7, 2023

Nurses Don’t Have to Make This Stuff Up Photo by Kah Lok Leong on Unsplash During a fire drill the nurse, Kathryn, was closing doors to patients’ rooms. An 86-year-old patient was talking on the phone to her daughter when Kathryn reached her room. Don’t worry,” Kathryn said.

Nurse Stories 86

Nurse Stories 86

Donna Cardillo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The summer before my senior year of RN nursing school, I worked as an LPN (we were allowed to take LPN boards then after 2 years of RN education) in a county-run long-term chronic psychiatric facility. It was … A Nurse’s Story Read More » The post A Nurse’s Story first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN.

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LPN Education Nurse Stories 100

Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

My residency class had to deal with circumstances nurses haven’t had to deal with since the 1917 Spanish Flu pandemic, or ever before. At the start of the pandemic in North Carolina, student nurses were removed from all hospitals during our final clinical rotations because of a “mysterious disease”.

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Preceptors Work-Life Balance Business Nurse Stories 98

Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the next several weeks of this holiday season, we’ll be sharing personal Thank You, Nurses stories and videos as a gesture of gratitude for everything you and your colleagues do. This small token of appreciation is just one reminder of how your kindness in a single shift can be felt for a lifetime.

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Mental Health Nurse Stories 110

Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Nurses across the country are among millions of users posting short, expressive videos on the social media platform TikTok. Nurses sometimes use Tiktok as a vehicle to take a lighthearted look at the reality of what they do, which can sometimes raise concerns about nursing professionalism and safety.

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Education Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Communication 91

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A self-proclaimed millennial, Amanda Bettencourt , PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is serving a one-year term as president of the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). Amanda Bettencourt, APRN.

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Self-Care Nursing Burnout APRN Clinical Nurse Specialist 87

Nurse.com

JULY 13, 2022

Throughout the pandemic surges that ravaged our healthcare system, we at The DAISY Foundation stood in awe of nurses’ commitment to extraordinary care. Their courage, their dedication to their teams, their innovative solutions to caring for such sick patients, and their compassion to patients and families were truly breathtaking.

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Nurse Manager Promotion Leadership Education 93

Daily Nurse

AUGUST 2, 2022

Did you know that social media is a nurse’s “secret” weapon to reduce stress and anxiety? Expressing yourself on social media is one way to boost your mental health so that you feel more energized in the classroom, work environment, and hospital. Social Media Benefits Mental Health You have a lot on your plate if […].

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Mental Health Nurse Stories 90